Midtown Outfitters Gear & Garments

Midtown Outfitters Gear & Garments is situated on the topside of the overpass, its original location before the flood. Most of the shop's items are not for sale. Explorers can earn artifacts by completing tasks and solving puzzles that are hidden throughout the storybuild.

Gamification is coming to Lakewater Project storybuilds. Gamification is yet another interactive storytelling technique that is unique to immersion storytelling. It is expected to be fully embedded into the build by winter of 2014-2015.

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Midtown Arts Museum

The Midtown Arts Museum is a virtual storybuild written by fictive Ruby O'Degee. The museum collects fine art and carbon dated artifacts, elements of all storytelling that is told with traditional symbolic text or visual illustration.

Since 1993 the Museum has produced many stories, objects and memories that arose out of virtually lived journeys. For a long while the stories were written and shared by Cyan Worlds (Myst Reader, Myst, Riven Uru). Then in the spring of 2007, Ruby found a hole in their fence, a path to her own explorer story and a new passion for building her own worlds.

The Under the Overpass Museum, her explorer backstory for her adventures in the D'ni cavern was revived, and a writing process continues to be revealed to her benefactor, D. Ann Dickerson.

About the Storybuilder

Ruby O'Degee is a fictive author and storybuilder, penned by Ann Dickerson. In the tradition of characters developed for telling stories (Sherlock Holmes, Marco Polo, Cynthia Rawlings), Ruby was first made a character for a journal in 1994, and later represented by an avatar (fall of 2003). Ruby is much better known than her typist, author and benefactor, a fact that pleases Ann.
When Ruby or Ann are asked about her decision to let a fictive speak for her, she responds with the poetic answer of W.B. Yeats ---
The Mask----
"PUT off that mask of burning gold/
With emerald eyes."/
"O no, my dear, you make so bold/
To find if hearts be wild and wise,/
And yet not cold."/
"I would but find what's there to find,/
Love or deceit."/
"It was the mask engaged your mind,/
And after set your heart to beat,/
Not what's behind."/
"But lest you are my enemy,/
I must enquire."/
"O no, my dear, let all that be;/
What matter, so there is but fire/
In you, in me?" /